[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.10-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb  7 16:12, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:25:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Feb  7 15:09, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:29:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> So, here are two questions:
> >> 
> >> - Since you *knew* that the process.h header had moved for a month
> >>   (after all, it is "as for every snapshot"), why didn't you say a single
> >>   word that this may result in a problem with building gcc?
> I didn't know because /usr/include/process.h was still there. Only a
> "tar tvf" told me this today. Perhaps we should do:
> 
> rm `tar tf <last-cygwin-package-installed>`     # you got the idea
> before
> tar xf <new-cygwin-package-to-install>          # here also
> 
> at any cygwin package switch? Or at least compare the respective
> results of "tar tf". What do you think?
> >> 
> >> - Why is that such a big problem?  Changing process.h to cygwin/process.h
> >>   should work, right?
> Oh yes, sure. When you have the necessary pieces it's rather easy.
> For the record, also perl-5.14.2 seems broken.

I moved the file back to /usr/include for the next release, which will
probably not be too far in the future...


Corinna

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